Press
Showing 241-260 of 1181 Items
-
Nervous U.S. Allies Brace for Iran Fallout
Caught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of the most powerful Iranian general, the United States’ longtime Gulf and European allies are ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Rachel Rizzo
-
Iran avoids full-blown war with US but is caught in new crisis
The Iranian leadership, rattled by the death of a top general in an US drone attack, hit at US forces in Iraq with missile strikes designed to save face at home but not sparki...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
The US killed Soleimani. What will Iran do next?
In his speech declaring a kind of victory over Iran on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said “Iran appears to be standing down,” implying the threat America faces from the Is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Kushner’s Global Role Shrinks as He Tackles Another: The 2020 Election
When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Vice Pr...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Has Trump deterred Iran? Experts not so sure.
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday that the US strike that killed a top Iranian general had restored credibility to the US threat to Tehran to restrain itself mili...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons
American military and intelligence officials were stunned at the precision, scale and sheer boldness of what they later concluded was an Iranian attack. Four months ago, a sw...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Here’s what might happen if the U.S. were to suddenly quit Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to set up a mechanism for U.S. troops to withdraw from the country, according to an Iraqi s...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Experts: US, Iran Unlikely to Escalate Tensions
Following Iran's missile attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday and President Donald Trump's speech Wednesday, experts say they believe the United States and Iran are unlikely...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran
It could have been much worse. It’s a measure of this dangerous moment that many observers felt relief on Tuesday night after the Pentagon announced that there had been no Am...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
CNAS Responds: Tensions Rise Between the United States and Iran
The first week of 2020 has seen a sharp escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, with the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iranian missile strikes on U.S. military t...
By Richard Fontaine, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kayla M. Williams, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya & Kaleigh Thomas
-
Iran just fired missiles at US military targets. What does this mean?
The Trump administration’s reticence might be the most hopeful sign that the US-Iran conflict that has escalated dramatically since the strike on Soleimani could cool back dow...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Iran-US conflict may stretch definitions of ‘war’
Refined Kitten – also known as APT33, Elfin, and Magnallium – is a shadowy hacker group that cybersecurity firms believe works in the interests of Iran. When tensions between ...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers
-
Conflict With Iran Threatens Fight Against ISIS
For the militants of the Islamic State, the American drone strike that killed the Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani was a two-for-one victory. First, the killing of General ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Iran general's death underscores vulnerability of senior leaders
Qassem Soleimani was identified in death by a silver ring with a massive red stone on the finger of his severed hand. That’s what was left of Soleimani, Iran’s top military g...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
NYC Readies More Cops as Security Tightened Across U.S. on Iran
Police with assault rifles and even bag checks could become more common as officials from New York to California ramp up security in the face of Iranian threats of revenge for...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
Surge of IS Violence Seen in Syria
Islamic State militants have increased their terror activity in recent weeks in Syria, carrying out deadly attacks against Syrian regime troops and U.S.-backed forces. Since ...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
Turmoil in Iraq comes amid shrunken U.S. diplomatic footprint
The storming of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad by protesters on Tuesday has underscored the vulnerability of U.S. diplomats in a country stuck in the middle of a mounting conflic...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Turkey’s Erdoğan uses airbase as bargaining chip against United States
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is again threatening to close the country’s strategically important Incirlik Airbase to the United States if Washington pushes ahead wit...
By Nicholas Heras
-
On the ground in northern Syria in the perilous weeks after Trump’s military withdrawal
On the morning of October 12th, Hevrin Khalaf, a rising young Kurdish political leader, rode along the M4 highway in northern Syria. Seated in the back of a bulletproof Toyota...
By Nicholas Heras
-
Turkey’s relocating of Syrian refugees under way
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the country’s state broadcaster TRT that he intends to settle approximately 1 million Syrian refugees in the so-called “safe zone” ...
By Nicholas Heras